Sr Asset Leader - 1st Technology

Sr Asset Leader – 1st Technology at Kimberly‑Clark

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground‑breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

Incumbent reports to the Site Operations Manager. This role is responsible for effectively leading business objectives for the assigned assets. It involves interaction across business sectors and broad‑based business projects. Objectives focus on safety, quality, GMP, housekeeping, customer service, continuous improvement, productivity, cost, internal control, asset management, human resources and team capability development. This role is responsible for a more complex asset base, determining plant programs and projects needed to accomplish objectives, ensuring effective and cost‑efficient execution, and working with multidisciplinary project teams to set priorities, manage budgets and participate in long‑range planning.

• Support the loss control improvement process by championing and complying with critical safety rules.
• Visibly demonstrate that safety is a core value by role modeling and ensuring compliance with safety procedures and maintaining a safe workplace.
• Ensure that the development of processes, standards and equipment meets national, local and K‑C safety codes, policies and guidelines.
• Own development of safety improvement plans.
• Ensure safety investigations are completed, and countermeasures are in place per incident investigations standard.
• Ensure assets comply with pertinent housekeeping standards.
• Ensure consumer safety requirements are met and strengthened.
• Achieve KCNA specific health and safety objectives (e.g., EHS Maturity Score, URM/UHET).
• Achieve KCNA specific environmental and sustainability objectives (energy, water, plastics, landfill).

• Demonstrate quality as a core value.
• Responsible for understanding and holding team accountable for upholding K‑C’s Quality policy and standards.
• Achieve and improve objectives around quality metrics (e.g., significant events, RFT, Cost of quality).
• Understand and ensure compliance with applicable FDA and other regulatory agencies and codes.

• Build strong relationships and put systems in place to deliver sustainable year‑over‑year improvement for your asset platform.
• Manage teams in accordance with the principles and tenets of the plant’s High Performance Work System and expected K‑C Values.
• Lead with high expectations around safety and team support.
• Partner with Talent Business Partners and Peer Resource Groups to have strong performance management processes, where coaching and mentoring for all team members is ongoing.
• Collaborate with other Asset Leaders at the site to lead succession planning for your hourly operations team members.
• Partner with the Plant Engineering & Reliability Manager to support succession planning for your engineering and reliability team members.
• Drive partnerships and collaboration with other plant teams such as Manufacturing Excellence, Reliability, Training 4 Excellence to build capability within the Operations team.
• Collaborate with the site T4E team to ensure your asset area is adhering to the training plan, training documentation is current and accessible, and that team members are progressing to Intermediate and Advanced levels for the right skill mix.
• Willingly adopt and advance company policies and standards.
• Establish clear and concise strategic goals; assign the resources and priorities to achieve those goals.
• Build Talent in your team’s Continuous Improvement Capability such as Lean Basics, Problem Solving, 5S, Leader Standard Work, Visual Management, Leader Standard Work.
• Drive cultural and business results improvement through development, ownership, and execution of Tactical Implementation Plans (TIPs).
• Foster a culture of belonging.
• Responsible for building talent of new…